Series vs. Title — What's the Difference?

A number of objects or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.

A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts. It may signify either generation, an official position, or a professional or academic qualification.

A set of stamps, coins, or currency issued in a particular period.

The name of a book, composition, or other artistic work

Physics & Chemistry A group of objects related by linearly varying successive differences in form or configuration

A name that describes someone's position or job

(Mathematics) The sum of a sequentially ordered finite or infinite set of terms.

The position of being the champion of a major sports competition

(Geology) A group of rock formations closely related in time of origin and distinct as a group from other formations.

A right or claim to the ownership of property or to a rank or throne

(Grammar) A succession of coordinate elements in a sentence.

(in church use) a fixed sphere of work and source of income as a condition for ordination.

A succession of publications that present an extended narrative, such as a comic book series, or that have similar subjects or similar formats, such as a series of cookbooks.

Give a name to (a book, composition, or other work)

A succession of individual programs presented as parts of a unified whole, such as the set of episodes of a television show or a podcast.

An identifying name given to a book, play, film, musical composition, or other work.

(Sports) A number of games played by the same two teams, often in succession.

A general or descriptive heading, as of a book chapter.

(Baseball) The World Series.

A written work that is published or about to be published

(Linguistics) A set of vowels or diphthongs related by ablaut, as in sing, sang, sung, and song.

A division of a legal code, generally consisting of multiple related statutes.

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

Often titles Written material to be read by viewers that is included in a film or television show, typically presenting credits, narration, or dialogue.

(broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

A written piece of translated dialogue superimposed at the bottom of the frame during a film; a subtitle.

(mathematics) The sequence of partial sums $\backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^n\{a\_i\}$ of a given sequence a_i.

A formal appellation attached to the name of a person as a sign of office, rank, profession, or hereditary privilege.

A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

A descriptive name; an epithet

(zoology) An unranked taxon.

A right or claim, or the basis of a right or claim

(botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

A form of ownership free of valid claims by other parties.

(commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

The aggregate evidence that gives rise to a legal right of possession or control.

(phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

The instrument, such as a deed, that constitutes this evidence.

(electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit, in series.

Sports & Games A championship

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.

A source of income or area of work required of a candidate for ordination in the Church of England.

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

A Roman Catholic church in or near Rome having a cardinal for its nominal head.

In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.

To give a name or title to.

An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification. See also :Category:Titles

A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; - opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.

(property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.

A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.

Similar things placed in order or happening one after another;

A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.

A serialized set of programs;

The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.

A periodical that appears at scheduled times

A publication.

(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams;

A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.

A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection;

A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.

(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

(bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.

(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other;

The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.

A division of an act of law

(sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.

A long title.

A short title.

(transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.

An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc.

The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.

A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.

An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc.

A name; an appellation; a designation.

That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title.

A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.

To call by a title; to name; to entitle.

A heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with;

The name of a work of art or literary composition etc.;

A general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work;

The status of being a champion;

A legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it;

An identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. Mr. or General;

An established or recognized right;

(usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action;

An appellation signifying nobility;

An informal right to something;

Give a title to

Designate by an identifying term;